Wednesday, 29 January 2014

On Sunday it rained and snowed on and off all day, so I went upstairs to make my latest card for Diva's By Design. Today we follow the theme of;

Vintage with Lace

Not a particular favourite of mine, but as it was a DT card I had to get on with it! Firstly I had the problem of an image. Initially I was going to use an old photo, but in the end I went with a digi from Free Vintage Digital Stamps - think the name there says it all, and if any of you haven't checked them out I urge you to do so as they have some super images.

So, onto my card...

The colours haven't photographed too well, but I think you get the general idea! Papers are Bo Bunny Avenue Collection then the card is finished with Hobbyhouse pearls and gems, some lace and punched leaves.

Sponsoring us this time are the fabulous Live & Love Crafts, with our lucky winner getting?

I hope you can join us on this one, there are loads of cat stamps out there - the hard bit is deciding on which one to use! The prize this time around is this is this wooden Hampton Art Stamp

So I went with a new PB called It's Your Day, I got it from Sam as she won it in a prize from Laurie when she did an earlier MAWTT challenge - so I guess it's thanks to both of them that I now have this little beauty!

Papers again are LOTV, as is the sentiment and the card is decorated further with ribbon, glossy accents, pearls and heart diecuts.

And now a story that happened a few months back, which made this stamp so perfect. When Merlot had only been with us a few weeks, he followed me about like a shaddow - still does when he's in the house! Anyway, one night I went for a bath and you know whats coming... little Lotty jumped up on the side and was happily patrolling the perimeter when the inevitable happened and he went for a dip. Strange thing is he wasn't that phased, just soaked thru!

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

It's time for a new challenge over at an Oldie But a Goodie, and this week it's my turn to set the theme, so, I've chosen...

Recycle

(Remember also to use an item older than 6 months on your project and to tell us what it is.)

This was my cheeky little recycling idea for a male card the other day! The idea came to me after a lovely glossy magazine came through the post advertising Tesco's wine range. The magazine was such good quality it seemed a shame to throw it straight in the bin, so instead, I set about it with scissors!

The Front Cover

The Back Cover

The Bottles Pages

The Final Card!

Quite a quick and simple card really once I had the initial idea. It's finished off with a flower of un-known origin, but it was perfect for the job along with a ribbon & sentiment. (The flower is also very old!)

Challenges;SSW2 - sorry it's taken me so long to join in, just been a bit busy, but I'm pleased to be using this fab sketch.Stampin For The Weekend - Anything GoesPBSC - New - New papers from my son at Xmas

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Today see's another new challenge begin over at Sweet Stampin, and Abi has chosen the theme this time. Today we are being asked to create using;

Your Favourite Style

Now after thinking about this, I decided on CAS - I never seem to manage to pull off the mega embellished look without my card looking cluttered, so instead I prefer the other extreme! A good sentiment and a bold well coloured image &...that's it!

So here is my card for the occasion;

Sponsoring us this time are Stix2 who are giving away a goodie bag to our lucky winner,

and as well as this we have the monthly sponsor of Cuddly Buddly who offer the overall monthly winner a £10 voucher to use in store.

Challenges;As You Like It - Favourite C&S design & why. One image one sentiment and a border - simple as! I love this style as I'm not really into cards with loads on them - mine look to busy when I try. Plus these cards are perfect to post and don't need a large stamp!One Crazy Stamper - Anything GoesThe Paper Shelter - Winter Blue - got the blue, not sure about the Winter - but I guess people move house in winter too?Top Tip Tuesday - CASBrown Sugar - Anything Goes

He went for his "little boy" op on Thurs only things did not go to plan. His bits weren't both to be found so he needed a much bigger operation with his tummy opened up. Eventually things were located and removed and he's now home recovering poor love.

Monday, 13 January 2014

Right, I know we are now almost at the end of week 2 of 2014, but at least I have started card production again. Last year I didn't work on Christmas all year long and that wasn't the best, so I'm back to a card a week for the year.

Saturday, 11 January 2014

Hi everyone, Saturday again and the second of my post's for Sweet Stampin. Hope you are all well and settling back in to the normal routine of things. Yesterday I took my eldest son back to Uni, so I have to say I'm a bit sad at the moment. That's him in 2nd year now and it's still hard to say bye as he heads off for another term. Glad he's only an hour away though as I can always visit!

Right' back to Sweet Stampin business, today the theme is;

Girly but no Pink!

Not too hard a theme for me as I quite often don't do pink girly cards. That said, because I was told not to this time, it kinda made me want to use it - how bizzar!

So, here's my card -

My card uses a fab Bugaboo image, MME Be Amazed papers and dies - Die-namics Retro Squares again for the middle strip and I think, a Marianne Flower.

Again there are a few sponsors for this challenge - Cuddly Buddly are offering the monthly winner a £10 voucher whilst the weekly prize winners will get a £10 voucher from the Ribbon Girl.

Finally, a couple of cat pics. For those of you that follow my blog you will know I have a 6 month old kiten called Merlot who loves to climb trees. So, the latest adventure, my neighbours tree, here he is,

... he was up there for over an hour jumping about on the stumps till I eventually got the ladders out - again. How many times does he need to get stuck in trees before he'll learn? Jx

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Today is a very exciting day for me as it sees the beginning of my month long stint as a guest designer at Sweet Stampin. I am so pleased to have been given the chance to work with the SS team and I'm looking forward to joining in with all their challenges this month - thanks ladies for asking me along.

So, the theme of this first challenge of 2014 is;

Sport & Fitness
Do you think the DT ladies are trying to nudge us in to action with this one???

For my card, I went with a sport dear to my son's heart - football, and this was the card I made for his birthday.

The paper is Basic Grey and the image, a super digi from Just Inklined, called Football Crazy. The colours of the football boots reflect the current ones Alan wears, (& I clean!) and the glaze helps them have that plastic appearance that boots have nowadays.

Sponsoring this challenge and offering some great prizes are

Flat Friends - £15 voucher prize

Crafty Devils - £15 voucher prize

And the monthly sponsor is Cuddly Buddly who are giving away a £10 voucher prize - so lots of prizes to be won!

Friday, 3 January 2014

Morning everyone, after what seems like a huge crafting break, I'm now back upstairs and 2014 production has begun!

Today's card uses a lovely " A Day for Daisies" image available here - really love their stamps and you'll be seeing a few more of their images this year as that's what Colin got me for Christmas - clever boy!

Papers are an LOTV pad then the ribbon & lace were from my huge ribbon box and the clouds, Die-namics die-cuts.